Neandertallica

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart